InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Black as Night, White as Snow ❯ Blossoming Relationships ( Chapter 8 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

A/N: I finally got to read my latest reviews! [About time, too...] Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! So far they're all sweet, and I'm glad you like this story so much. I love to write, and I have funny using my weird humor any time I can, which should scare people, but most seem to enjoy it. ::Grins:: I'm just happy that people are having fun with this story, just wait until next chapter where the entire thing is made only for laughs. Serously, there's no plot in the next chapter, just humor. Thank you!

Anywho, not much to say, so I’ll get on with it. And this is an Inu/Kag fic, you’ll just have to wait for the kinks including Kikyou and Sesshoumaru to work themselves out.

And no, they still don’t know each other’s names.

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Disclaimer: Je n’ai pas de Inuyasha ou Snow White. (Technically that says ‘I don’t have Inuyasha or Snow White’ but for pity’s sake, lets change the ‘have’ to ‘own’.)

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Black as Night, White as Snow

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--- Last Chapter ---

Walking into the clearing, she smiled when she saw him. “You came!” she called.

He smirked as he walked up and did the customary tap on the nose, “You should learn to have a little more faith in me!”

It was their normal greeting and they switched who said what each time.

“You’d be amazed at what I saw yesterday,” Kagome started as he led her to the base of a tree.

“Really, and what was that?” he smirked as he sat down next to her.

“Well...” and the maiden, maid, and ex-princess started her tale.

--- End of Last Chapter ---

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Chapter Eight: Blossoming Relationships

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“You said something about being to France not too long ago, right?” Inuyasha asked offhandedly as he lounged in the branches of the large oak tree. The maiden sat on the same branch as him, it was pretty high off the ground.

She was perched a few feet away where she was gazing out at the surrounding forest as birds ate berries out of her palm. “Yeah...why?”

Inuyasha smirked, while still keeping his eyes closed. “Say something then.”

Kagome gaped at him. “I said I’ve been there and I’ve used a term, but I didn’t say I could speak the language!”

“Well can you?” One golden eye propped itself open to gaze at her.

“...Yes...”

“Then say something!” he commanded. “I want to see if you even know what you’re talking about.” Inu commanded.

Kagome huffed, “What? You think I’d lie?”

“Of course not!” Inuyasha feigned surprise. “You’re a ‘good girl’. Your own words of course...”

Kagome eyed him. “Alright.”

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“So? Are you going to do it or not?” he asked when she didn’t open her mouth. He watched as Kagome’s nose scrunched in concentration.

“Alright. I’ll describe a...friend.” She nodded to herself resolutely. “Let’s see if you can guess who it is!”

“Feh.”

“Il est grand et assez mechant. Il est japonais. Il est aussi assez gentil et sympathique. Il est amusant.” Looking down to her lap, Inu was amused to see her blush. “Et, aussi, il est tres mignon et beau!”

Inuyasha eyed her pink cheeks. “What’s all that mean? How am I susposed to guess if I don’t know what you just said?”

Kagome’s blue gaze snapped up to meet his. “Hey! You were the one that told me to speak french!”

Inu shrugged as he leaned back. “Tell me! And start from the top!”

Kagome glowered at the order but decided to do it anyway. After a few minutes of running over what she said, she began the translation. “Hmm...lets see. He is tall and rather naughty. He is Japanese. He is also kind and good to be around. Oh, and fun.”

Inuyasha watched her carefully. The ‘he’ part bothered him. “I’m sure you missed a part here or there...”

Kagome sent him a scornful look. “Fine, fine! I also said he’s very cute and handsome.”

Yep, there was that blush again.

Inu pretended to concider the traits. “Well...how about Shippou?”

Kagome scrunched up her nose, “Shippou is cute, but not handsome.”

“Naraku?”

Kagome smirked. “Well the ‘naughty’ and handsome part would fit him” She scowled at the acorn that hit her head from the certain direction of a certain hanyou. “What? You’re the one who asked!”

“Keh. Moving on, Miroku?”

The young maiden giggled. “All of that fits him...except for the tall part!” She openly laughed at her own idea. Inu just scowled, hurt that he wasn’t let in on this supposed inside joke. “I’d gladly give him the compliments if it weren’t for his ‘wandering hands’...” she scowled as she unconsciously tapped her derrière as if it was defiled. Which, knowing Miroku, it probably was.

“Next! Hojo?”

Kagome openly gaped at him. “How’d you know?” she blushed. “I was hoping my feelings weren’t noticeable! But you guessed so quickly, maybe I should just tell him...” She watched in amusement as the hanyou fell out from the top most branches of the very large tree.

Propping himself up on his elbows he sputtered and the dirt and grass flew from his mouth. “What?!” he roared.

Kagome, sure he was all right if he could yell that loud, began to laugh. “Not ‘what’, silly! Who! And that’s Hojo.” She sighed and looked off into the distance with a dreamy expression on.

Growling, the lord leapt back onto his branch. Scooping the startled woman into his arms he hopped down and set her down in front of him. Placing a clawed hand on each shoulder, he eyed her seriously.

It was all Kagome could do to keep from laughing the situation off and getting rid of his worries.

“Wench...” he began seriously. “This Hojo can't be good for you! From what you tell me, he’s a weakling. A wimp! No seeing him,” he roared.

Kagome sighed. “Gods! I was only-!”

He swept her into a hug and she was cut off as his arms crushed her. Pulling back he looked at her again. “Now, what were you saying?”

Kagome hung her head, a little ashamed after he’d taken her joke so seriously. Idiot. “I was only joking! I wasn’t talking about Hojo!”

“Then who was it!” Inuyasha demanded as his mind raced for the name of any other man she could have mentioned.

Kagome laughed as she chucked him under the chin and then giggled even harder as he scowled sourly back at her. Untangling his arms she stepped back and picked up her handkerchief that had held a small meal for them to share.

As she began to walk away she looked over her shoulder; “I was talking about you!”

Inuyasha smirked as she disappeared.

It’d gotten pretty late; too bad she had to leave him to cook for those bastards that took her away from him every evening.

Someday it’ll be his home where she went to cook him dinner. And no one would be taking her away.

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“Er...Lord Inuyasha? Are you feeling all right master? You have an odd expression-.”

“She called me handsome, Myouga.”

“Well good for you, but if I may sir. There’s only nine days left before your marriage, shouldn’t you be out looking for a loophole?” the flea asked hesitantly.

Inuyasha scowled as he was brought out of his fantasy of the Maiden, as he had no other way of calling her, waiting for him as he came home from work. “Shut it, Myouga. I’m not marrying Queeny, we’ll get out of it in time,” Inuyasha pushed the problem to the side yet again.

“Of course, my lord,” Myouga frowned as he began to leap away.

He had to find a suitable princess for his master.

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“Mmm, Kagome! It smells great! What is it?” Sango asked as she wandered into the kitchen.

Kagome spun on her heal and her complete look of utter happiness scared Sango. The brunette took a hesitant step backwards, afraid that Kagome’s bright smile and white teeth would give her sunburn.

“Its Oden!” the blue eyed woman chirped. She then went back to the meal while chanting ‘oden oden oden’ under her breath.

“Right,” Sango smiled as she was in a good mood for once. Miroku had kept his distance, so had Kikyou, and Naraku didn’t get any more ‘brilliant’ ideas. Curse whoever created that evil man.

Whether it be the Monster from the Black Lagoon or the Yeti.

“You seem happy,” the magenta-eyed female pointed out as she sat at the table.

Kagome smiled, “Only because its good that you guys took a short day today. You’re several hours early! It’s still light out.”

Sango smiled, “After Hojo dropped his axe on Naraku’s toe for the sixth time we decided to call it a day.”

Kagome laughed. “Good! Although...Naraku could do without ten toes I’m sure.”

Sango gave a wry smile, “He could also do without his ten braincells. They cause too much trouble with all their ‘great’ plans.”

Kagome began to hum as she finished her cooking.

“Kagome?” Sango asked.

“Uh huh?”

“How’s that man you’ve been meeting? You haven’t talked about him for awhile. He hasn’t done anything to hurt you, right?”

“No! I know it sounds crazy, but I just feel like I can trust him. I still don’t even know his name...”

Sango gave the back of the ebony head a worried glance. “It’ll be fine. You know we’re here to help, right?”

“Yeah, Sango-chan. don’t worry about it. First sign of trouble and I’m out of there,” Kagome even snapped her fingers in demonstration of how quickly she’d leave.

The taijiya nodded to herself. “That’s good Kagome-chan. We wouldn’t want anything to happen to our favorite princess turned maid.”

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Outside on the windowsill, Myouga gasped.

‘Princess turned maid’ he echoed in his mind.

“This is perfect! Lord Inuyasha can fix all his problems by marrying the young maiden, this ‘Kagome’. Beautiful name. But first things first, I need to check this out. Shouldn’t get the master’s hopes up only to squash them...just like he’ll do to me...” the vassal muttered as he leapt off the sill to find some records of the maiden’s claim.

It seemed too perfect to be real.

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Inuyasha smelt her before he saw her. Leaping up, his haori flapping around him, he prepared to greet her like a lost little puppy.

What he wasn’t prepared for was the scent accompanying her sweet aroma. The scent of water and salt---tears. Something was wrong. Something must be terribly wrong if it had moved the optimistic maiden to crying. Growl resounding and his hackles raising, Inuyasha mentally cursed whatever the hell it was that had hurt her, and he swore he’d get rid of it. Kagome burst in through the covering of the forest. Her slim, porcelain hands cupped around her tiny face and her ebony hair streamed behind her. Her kimono whipped around her feet as she rushed into the clearing.

Flinging herself at the disturbed hanyou, she clung to his front. Sobbing into his fire rat fabric, she tried to force words out.

‘What in all the hells...?’

Inuyasha wrapped one hand around her upper back to support the young woman while drawing soothing circles on the small of her back with the other. “It’s okay, what’s wrong?”

“Its-I didn’t know-I should h-have b-b-been there sooner! It’s all my fault...” she blubbered while keeping her face buried into his chest. “All my fault...” she repeated.

“It can’t be your fault,” Inu started, confused.

Her tear swimming blue eyes looked up at him, “Why’s that?” she asked while swiping the tears away with a trembling palm.

Inuyasha shrugged and said tersely, “Because you’re perfect.”

Kagome couldn’t help herself and laughed at that. Punching him lightly in the top of his arm she growled, “Look what you made me do! Don’t joke around like that, I shouldn’t be laughing!”

Inuyasha smirked, “Who said I was joking?”

Kagome sniffed while rolling her eyes. Skipping the subject she went back to her previous statement, “It’s all my fault.”

“What is?” he asked, still supporting her.

“Shippou-chan,” she said slowly. “He...last night, around midnight, I found him trembling. He’s really sick, and I don’t know how to help him. If I’d been back sooner, maybe I would have noticed he was hurt.”

“Not your fault,” he shrugged it off.

“It is so!” Kagome snapped, and Inuyasha winced at her motherly tone. “I should be taking care of them, not gallivanting with some silver haired stranger!”

“But I’m not a stranger,” Inu said testily.

Kag gave him a once over, “No, but you’re more of one than they are. For starters, I don’t even know you’re name.”

Inu gave her a look and leaned down to whisper in her ear, “The simple way to fix that would be to give me yours.”

Kagome shivered at his tone, “Maybe later,” she hastily pushed away. “I just wanted to tell you that I can't come again today or tomorrow. Because I’ll be home taking care of him.”

“Get one of those others that you talk about to watch him,” Inu huffed. “I’m more important.” Kagome worried him by not saying anything. “Right?”

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“They’re just a bunch of your friends...”

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“...”

“And that differs from you how?” Kagome asked a little coldly.

Inuyasha winced, before scowling. “What do you mean?”

“I don’t even know your name...and I never really thought about it before,” Not a complete lie...

“And what about that kiss, have you forgotten that?”

Kagome surprised him, and herself, by snorting and breaking her cold attitude. “That’d be kind of hard. I’d have serious brain damage if I forgot my first kiss,” she immediately slapped a hand over her lips and widened her azure orbs. Prying a few fingers away for a second, she whispered, “I didn’t just say that out loud, did I?”

“Well actually, you did,” Inu rubbed the back of his neck, the lightest of blushes tingeing his cheeks. Oh great! Now he felt bad about stealing her first kiss, but good at the same time that it was him who did it.

Kagome blushed. He wasn’t supposed to know that! She was seventeen gods be damn it! She should have had a kiss by then. “Oops...well, I better go. Shippou?”

“Yeah, go help the brat,” he huffed as he collapsed on the ground, one leg under him and the second bent upwards. Crossing his arms and starring off to the side, he watched her through the corner of his eye.

She looked at him a little uncertainly before sighing and trotting off. As she reached the corner of the clearing she gave him one last glance.

Shifting a little, Inu finally gave in, “Wait!”

Mentally smiling that he wasn’t going to let her just walk off, she turned back to him. “What?”

“My good-bye kiss?”

The smile being on her face this time, she ran back and kissed him on the cheek. Maybe a little more lingering than she meant to. “Bye, see you in two days?”

“Yeah,” he smirked, happy that she was peppy again. She went from sobbing to cold to shy to happy faster than most mood swings would allow.

But somehow he didn’t mind.

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“Shippou, sorry I had to leave you alone. But I’m back now. I found some herbs on my way home, they should help.” Kagome called as she entered the large cottage and went up the stairs to the small fox.

“Hey Kagome,” he gave an adorable meek smile.

“Feeling any better?” she asked, plopping down to rub his tiny back.

He gave her a pitiful little look. “Some what.”

Kag laughed. “Let me guess, not good enough to work tomorrow?”

Shippou gave a lop sided grin with his tiny fangs poking over his bottom lip. “Exactly.”

Kagome tapped her chin thoughtfully. “I’ll talk to them. Don’t worry. There’s only seven days of work after today, I don’t think they’ll miss you. Plus, Midoriko sounds like a fair woman, she shouldn’t care if a sick child got a day off.”

“Thanks Kagome. What are we going to do tomorrow? I’ll be feeling good enough to get out of bed, don’t you think?”

“Yeah, probably. We’ll have to see.”

“Thanks again. I’m going to,” here he let out a Kaede sized yawn, “take a nap,” he finished before laying his small red head down on his pillow.

“Okay, you do that.” Kagome gave him a small kiss on his temple and tucked him in. “Sleep well, kay Shippou-chan?”

“All right...” he muttered as the darkness claimed him.

Kagome climbed off the bed to look behind her one more time once at the doorway. She smiled at the slumbering little boy. He was a good kid. Her heart broke at the thought of him being orphaned so young, but that just made her care for him all the more. She'd really grown to love the little boy. “Good night Shippou,” she whispered before shutting the door. “Sleep well and I’ll have a treat for you tomorrow.”

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It surprised him, to say the least.

She was coming, even though she said she wouldn’t.

Smirking at the fleeting thought that she just couldn’t stay away from him, he tipped his head slightly to gain better access to her fresh scent. The Maiden always smelled good to him.

Of course, then he happened to be surprised for a second time.

Her scent wasn’t alone. A smell of musty dirt and the greenery of vegetation, like grass and leaves, was laced in with her own. So was the strong youki of a demon.

Okay...

...So it wasn’t strong. But it was still that of a demon.

His hackles raising, Inuyasha rose to his feet in urgency to meet this new threat. If you could call that pathetic excuse for power a threat.

Kagome stepped lightly into the clearing looking a little more clean cut than the day before. Her eyes were no longer red and her face was dry of tears. Instead of her thin brown kimono, she wore the slightly thicker blue one. Her hair was clean, like always, and pulled back softly to be out of her way.

And in her arms, held protectively like any mother or sister would hold, was a fox cub.

A talking, chatting, giggling fox cup wearing clothes.

Which would make him, in Inuyasha’s personal logic, a fox demon.

“So I can’t call you by your name?” the little boy asked as he looked eagerly up at the petite woman.

Kagome earnestly shook her head and flashed a smile. “Nope. I’m keeping it a secret from him.”

“Okay,” the young boy looked thoughtful for a moment. “So what do I call you?”

Inuyasha strained his ears...which was unnecessary considering he could easily overhear every word being said.

“Um,” Kagome wasn’t sure.

Golden eyes watched the scene closely as the cub fidgeted. “Could I...could I call you...?”

“What?” her blue eyes flashed as she looked at him curiously.

“Okaa-san?”

Kagome surprised them both by laughing. The sound was like a clear bell that could cut through any confusion or hurt the second it rang. “Of course Shippou-chan! I’d love it, and I’d be honored to be called you're mother.”

“Shippou?” Inuyasha muttered. Walking over to the chattering couple he tapped the kid soundly on the head before Kagome could stop him. “So this is the brat?” As he finished the question he bonked the boy on the head, hard, one more time for good measure. ‘Wonder what it would feel like to poke him with a stick...?’

Kagome slapped his hand away. “Be nice! And he is not a brat, he’s a sweet heart,” she defended the lad nestled in her arms. As soon as her line of sight was solely on the hanyou, Shippou stuck his tongue out at the half demon. He then giggled when the silvery-white haired man went to smack him again but his ‘mom’ stopped the clawed hand. “Do I need to separate you two?” she asked seriously.

Inuyasha snorted before growling at the fox, “He started it!”

“Did not!” Narrowing his green eyes, the fox said quietly, “I can smell the human in you.”

It didn’t sound like a complement.

Inuyasha flashed his glance up at the young woman. He’d always wondered what she thought about his half-and-half heritage.

Kagome didn’t seem to mind as she brushed the comment off. “Without that,” she teased the hanyou referring to the human blood, “he wouldn’t have these ears!” she tugged on one of the furry triangles to prove her point.

Inuyasha gave her a side-glance, “Is that the only reason you like me, for the ears?”

Kagome giggled, “No! I like you for your sparkling personality!”

Inuyasha felt out of the loop when Kagome and the cub began to snort in laughter and walk away.

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“Watcha doin’?” Shippou asked curiously of the Hanyou.

“Picking flowers.”

“Why?”

“So I can braid them.”

“Why?”

“Because the young woman you came with asked me to.”

“Why?”

“Because she wants a necklace of tulips.”

“Why?”

“Because she likes tulips.”

“Why?”

“Because they’re not ugly.”

“Why?”

“Because they have nice colors.”

“Why?”

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“Why?”

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“WHY?!”

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“Ow! Don’t hit me!” Shippou cried out as he nursed his throbbing head.

“Why?” Inuyasha asked innocently as he went on trying to tie the flowers together without slicing them with claws.

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A/N: Sorry, I just like ‘why?’ scenes. They’re almost as good as ‘what if?’ ones.

Ja ne!

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